5/28 An Artist Interview with Ayanna Nicole, A Soul-led Writer & Visual Artist ↓ An easeful conversation with Ayanna Nicole🌿 by The Easeful Place How is your heart today? What is it speaking to you? Before we get into today's letter, I want to start by offering a big THANK YOU for all the love and excitement received this week about the 'Return to Self' guided workbook. The genuine support and interest is heart-warming and something I can't wait to express in gratitude on June 7th (almost...
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5/22 An invitation to answer boldly, gently, honestly even if you're new to this ↓ A message on excitement🌿 by The Easeful Place. Happy Jupiter day. I hope the day has offered moments of ease through people, places, memories, pages or any other source. Showing up in your inbox today to touch on a topic that is close to my heart: living a life in alignment with what excites and gets you up and out of bed each rising. A nudge towards what lives in your heart with joyful simplicity. The prompt...
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5/16 Gratitude and adoration for all that we want to return to & all that we already are ↓ 🌿 by The Easeful Place. Happy Venus day. I hope you are holding love near today. Today’s letter is starting out with a burst of gratitude for the love, messages, and excitement received from the announcement about the ‘Return to Self’ journal workbook release. This community has breathed life into the work as well as the heart, so, much gratitude to you for sharing in our joy for this milestone and...
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4/27 Is Art Dead? and suggestions for preservation ↓ An artful inquiry🌿 by The Easeful Place Happy new moon in Taurus loves. What are you grounding into/realising as you sprout? Today’s letter is about art and nonconformity (our favourite guests at The Easeful Place). But it is also about something that lives in the fabric of this creative community – the responsibility of being compassionate creators. In a world that diverts so much of our attention away from the slow process of art-making...
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4/7 An Artist Interview with Psychotherapist, Author & Life Coach Ash Alves ↓ An easeful conversation with Ash Alves🌿 by The Easeful Place How is your heart today? This letter is being written to a Sasha Marie mix which is one part Sunday cleaning vibes and two parts hazy afternoon dancing with yourself vibes, feelings that stream sweetly into Monday. A song, a word, an extra long laugh, or a somatic moment of release - however you take it - may it be what eases you back to reality - where...
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1/12 In honour of our bodies and creative listening ↓ Notes for creating a mind-body approach to creativity 🌿 by The Easeful Place The first time I discovered that listening to my body was an avenue out of creative blockage was when I was working on a collaborative poetry project in the city of Birmingham. We were writers working on a performance for the national Poetry Slam stage and had individual and group performances to prepare. Our sessions were after work, so I had come straight from...
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12.2/2024 An easeful interview with: Lerah Mae Barcenilla ↓ An artist interview series full of he(art) 🌿 by Amara Amaryah Writing is an act of remembering as much as it is of bearing. We bear words on a page and sink into the future, or the backseat of a memory from our favourite childhood Sunday afternoon. Some writers simultaneously remember the worlds of old and the worlds that must come, and they keep us brave enough to do the same. Lerah is one of those artists who inspire artful ways of...
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11/22 Let the creator in you do the work that makes you feel free ↓ On having nothing to be ashamed of and an exploration of your very real artistic power 🌿 by Amara Amaryah Opening today’s letter with some affirmations: What you are creating is deeply needed What you are creating is divinely kneaded into our future realities As you breathe life into your visions, you breathe love into another’s vision And so it is. Whether quietly floating in your head, or spoken out into your exterior...
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October 2024 An easeful interview with: Jordan Rome ↓ An artist interview series full of he(art) 🌿 by Amara Amaryah The Easeful Place has a thing for artists and creators who willingly go deeper into the centre of their creative calling. Ease exists partially due to the labour needed to recognise, preserve, and cater to it. Artists remind us of this always. In the most recent installment of the easeful artist interviews, I speak to Jordan Rome, an artist, a travelling community finder, an...
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